>> this is al jazeera america live from new york. i'm tony harris with a look at today's hot stories. >> a gunman shoots seven people at los angeles international airport. iraq's prime minister meets with president obama to ask for help and weapons against al-qaeda. >> so there are many more

questions than answers at this hour after a gunman open fired at one of the city's busiest airport. police say several people were shot. a tsa agent was killed. the gunman was taken into custody. police believe the gunman acted alone. >> we believe at this point that there was a lone shooter, that he acted at least right now he was the only person armed in this incident. >> brian rooney joins us on the phone from los angeles international airport. give us the latest. the latest information that you have from the scree the scene. >> reporter: the biggest question right now who the shooter is. obviously officers know but they haven't told us who the shooter

is. he shot his way through the screening area of the terminal and went into terminal three where there was a gun battle. they did not say how many shots might have been fired, but six people were injured and taken to the hospital. right now the airport is basically shutdown. i have not seen a flight landing in quite awhile now. flights certainly are not going out. the planes are on hold all over the country. now thousands of passengers have been streaming out of the airport, walking along a major avenue outside l.a.x. with their rolling bag looking for some kind of transportation to get them out of here, or to get a hospital room if they need to spend the night. it's quite a scene. they say it will be hours before this airport is up and running again normally. >> brian, have you had an opportunity to speak to anyone who we could call a witness to these events?

>> no, by the time we arrived here i think people who may have seen anything were gone. i did talk to people who went through terminal three, but they really didn't see anything. and--they knew less about what was going on in the airport than we did. >> brian rooney with us from l.a.x. jennifer london has the latest on the victims. she's at our los angeles bureau, jennifer, what's the latest? >> reporter: here's what we do know, tony, seven people have been injured. six have been taken to the hospital. three have been taken to the level one trauma center. we heard a press conference from one of the emergency room doctors. she described the injuries that they're treating, we'll go ahead and take a listen to what she had to say. >> we received three male victims here at the medical center. we are a level one trauma center. we're trained to take care of

this. we were on the ready. we have plenty of staff, personnel and plenty of blood to take care of the patients we have received. one of those patients is in criminal condition. two of those patients are in fair condition. >> reporter: now she would not elaborate, further reciting privacy concerns. it's not clear if the gunman is among the injured. it is also not clear how many if any of the three that are being treated at ucla are tsa agent. al jazeera has reached out repeatedly to tsa to get a confirmation, and they would not con first in the press conference, but i did find a press release issued from the american federation of government employees, this is the union for tsa workers. i'll read what they had to say.

they write, we're sickened by reports of today's shootings at los angeles international airport. our sincerest thoughts and prayers go out to the passengers, and transportation security officers killed or injured in this heinous attack. that's a little bit of a nebo nebulous statement. we're hoping in the next coming hours today to learn more about the injuries. >> yes, we need that information. all right, jennifer london for us in our los angeles bureau. we should tell you some of the most vivid images from this afternoon has come from social media. >> reporter: tony, we're following wha what has been twe. you can see the weapon and the officer standing by there.

also tweeting this one, which is a wider shot of it. we want to show you a close up of this wide shot of what appears to be the scene. and earlier tory belecci has been tweeting this. he tweeted this nine minutes ago. armed police are still sweeping the terminals #lax shooting. and he just tweeted this. saying that the area is still under investigation, and they will not be letting them leave the holding area. these people are still in bradley terminal, and they're still being told what to do. it appears they're receiving water, milk and snacks at bradley terminal. this was just tweeted. l.a.x. stil

>> i saw you getting ready before this assignment today. i'm wondering how quickly and how reliable the information was that you were receiving from the social media. have you matched up the reporting that we can confirm at this point? >> yes, it appears--what you're seseeing is a lot of images and whether the image coincided with each other. we're seeing images from bradley international terminal, and we've also been seeing images of just people waiting around. so different people that are tweeting images from different viewpoints but they seem to be the same place, tony. >> maria, thank you. i know you'll continue to follow that for us, thank you. joining me now is al jazeera contributor dr. curtis. good to talk to you, will you

walk through what we've witnessed from l.a.x. and how this unfolded, and the response from law enforcement, the response from those who are responsible for that airport and the surroundings. how did it all play out? >> well, on the one hand one of the things that played out here one of the kinds of nightmare scenarios that passengers law enforcement and tsa think that is an attack by a person who is apparently at least acting alone. there is no warning. there is no group. there is no history of this sort of thing happening. frankly, anyone who is thinking that this sort of attack has a wealth of opportunity because there are hundreds of airports around this country. all of them has to be prepared for something like this. it happened to be at l.a.x. and you would think that this is an airport with tremendous capability, tremendous firepow firepower, tremendous police

force. it could have happened at a smaller airport, but at the same time i think the same thing would have happened, a smaller airport would have had police arrive, and security would have been put in motion. from the press conference earlier the police say this person got in the terminal, past security screening area, into the terminal deep enough to where the burger king was. looking at the schematics of this terminal-- >> can i stop you there. past the security screening area? >> that's correct. this particular terminal is shaped like a banjo. screening would have been at the neck of the banjo and the round part is where all the gates are. he got past the neck of the banjo, walked past the entire neck and was in the round part of the area where all the

airplanes are parked and where all the passengers are. this area was full of quite a bit of people. the fact that more people were not killed is quick response of the law enforcement. >> how does something like that? to use your i thinkry, how do you get through the neck of the banjo with a weapon? >> as anyone who has walked past security has scene there is always a line in front of the screening. there is no turnstile, no gates. if someone was waving a gun around it would be easy for someone to walk through the security gates and walk through the terminal. after that you have a nice wide hallway. >> just so i'm clear. the suggestion isn't that the semi auto was some how in the bag and got through the screen. this all happened as he was walking through the screening area and then brandished the

weapon, correct? >> correct. given the statements by law enforcement at the press conference plus some of the witnesses, it would appear that the weapon was pulled out of the bag before the screening station, and it is quite legal in virtually every airport in this country to carry weapons in the unsecure part of the airport that is before you get to tsa. if you travel with a weapon you have to check it at the counter. but local laws about gun ownership and gun use are the ones that "dish" the active laws outside of the security area. that is if you can carry legally a weapon in that city, you can probably carry a legal weapon in that terminal area before you get to security. >> interesting. >> again, the potential is there for virtually every airport. that is with rare exceptions people can legally carry weapons for any number of reasons in the non-secure parts of the airport.

now the threat is there, but it doesn't actually become a hazard until someone pulls out a weapon and starts firing. so i don't see projecting forward. i don't see the rules changing saying all weapons of all kinds will be banned from the non-secure area of the airport. there have been airport shootings in the past, including l.a.x. and the rules didn't change after that, either. >> do you see the rules changing for the tsa? do you see a new debate starting here--am i correct in saying that tsa employees, agent, security agents, they're not armed. >> they're not armed because they're not required to be armed. they're not trained to be law enforcement agents. they don't have law enforcement authority. therefore they're not carrying deadly weapons. >> you see where i'm going with this line of questioning. do you see a new debate starting whether they should receive that training in thetur the future ad should be armed?

>> i say there will be more training for tsa. this situation today will be a learning experience for tsa and passengers as well. that is going forward how will we respond as passengers, as tsa if something like this happens. there will be lessons learned here. but what i don't think will happen is a change of policy to make the tsa agents armed. as we have the situation now that has been anticipated. all the airports have law enforcement either there at the gate or very close to it. so that if something comes up that needs law enforcement intervention they're available 24/7. >> this is your field of expertise. you mentioned it's a learning moment for passengers. what the heck can passengers do? what additional training, what additional suggestions should go to passenger who is could find themselves in this kind of situation? >> well, one of the things that they saw on one of the social

media inputs was that a passenger said we were there in the terminal, and we heard gunshots so we got down on the floor. the police came in and said get your hands up. if you are a parents passenger,u see someone who looks like a law enforcement agent, they tell you it put your hands up, do you put your hands up or do you comply. gee, what if i'm in the terminal and this happens? what have people done in the past that made sense? if it happens to me, i'll do the same thing. it's that kind of learning opportunity that we have in this situation. >> i'm glad you made the point. dr. curtis, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> let's take a break now. more news to come. we'll be back in a moment. you're watching al jazeera america.

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>> welcome back everyone to al jazeera america. a zone strike has killed the leader of the taliban in pakistan. we had a bounty on his head. here is the report. >> reporter: we are told that the attack took place in th vere to the border. he's said to have been riding in a vehicle. he was accompanied by one of his uncles, and close aid and a driver. he was said to be getting out when up to four missiles struck that particular compound. he was reportedly killed there. the taliban are now admitting it. the funeral will be held at 10

gmt tomorrow, which is saturday. again, the confirmation is coming in, and this may prove to be a game changer. >> iraq took center stage at the white house this afternoon. president obama met with iraqi prime minister nouria nourial n. tell us again. swat purpose here? >> reporter: let's move that to the present tense. the president is meeting with iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki. they're at the conclusion of that meeting, and we'll worn you that we're going to be seeing video of that meeting in short order here. this comes at a crucial time. he met with joe biden friday morning. he went up to the vice

president's for breakfast. he came here and met with joe biden. what is on the table here? in the face of increasing violence domestic violence in iraq. very influence senators in the letter to a president warned that the country could be sliding back into a state of civil war. the u.n. just out with figure this is morning in fact for last month, the most of october. 852 iraqi civilians, died in october as a result of this violence. 5,000 according to some estimates have died since april when it spiked upwards, this violence. who is responsible? echoed by the white house put it squarely at the feet of al-qaeda. al-qaeda using areas of syria in its control of a staging

ground to execute these attacks into iraq. however, there are many, including that group of senators and many policy experts around town. part of it is sectarian violence of the sort that has plagued iraq, and the senators that i was talking about hold maliki responsible. now maliki is here asking for a couple of things. principally aid in the form of munitions and weapons systems. apache helicopters first and foremost. the president seems disposed to grant that request. this is a two-hour meeting now going on in the west wing. we a may hear from these two leaders, and how they are disposed towards that maliki request, as well as aid and getting back on its feet i

caifeeteconomically. >> does the white house see iraq's security mostly as internal problem. from where i sit that would be a mistake because there are broader implications for violence for iraq in the gledge >> 400 to 500 men and women in uniform who died in iraq in the nine-year war there. remember in 2011 the obama administration was negotiating with the maliki government about exactly what an u.s. resit yowl force would look like in iraq. they were unable to come to an agreement. there are no troops in iraq. there is no over the horizon

that would help momentarily help iraq cope with some of the domestic violence that the country is seeing now. this violence that we've been talking about. the violence that the president was criticizewas criticized for. they said no american force could help in these circumstances. these are political problems, they have to be worked out within iraq. i think we've sound bite as well of jay carney. i had a chance to ask him with 979 iraqis dead in october alone. both the white house and al maliki saying it's th it's al-q. >> the violence is coming from al-qaeda and it's affiliates. there is no question. when it comes to resolving

differences between the parties and factions and ethnic groups and religious groups within iraq, that's hard work, and it's every leader's responsibility in iraq to make sure that that work is done in a way to make sure it doesn't foster violence. >> very crucial meetings going on down here at the white house. >> we all know that al-qaeda is an extremist organization, ands is sectarian by definition. give us the heads up so we can get a tape of that meeting. thank you, mike, mike viqueira at the white house for us. edward snowdon said he's willing to help germany investigate allegations that nsa tapped angela's phone. in return he wants asylum. we have more now from moscow.

>> reporter: edward snowdon shows every sign of going nati native. on thursday he held a three-hour meeting with an mp from the green party saying their discussions were very revealing. at a press conference the mp said that snowdon would be willing to come to germany as a witness of the u. bugging the phone of angela merkels. >> he told me he can imagine coming to germany if it was made here clear he could remain here in safety. that means granting free passage and then asylum. >> reporter: it's reported snowdon is starting a new job in st. petersburg this month as a technical adviser to russia's version of facebook. but he may not be happy with the news that the federal security service in moscow has been given

new powers to intercept communications. >> it was a very warm meeting with the german m.p. it was held at snowdon's own initiative. >> reporter: it has prompted a protest from one of the country's biggest telephone companies. they said it will vie lit constitutional rights to confidential correspondence. >> it's going to be very furious, especially in next year's winter olympics, not just telecommunications but wi-fi, laptops and smart phones. 95% of all was words wil passwoe broken. >> reporter: holding out gifts to delegates, flash drives and trojan software to spy on software and communications. >> reporter: it is an attempt to

divert attention away from the serious charges of' of espionage against washington. >> we'll have more after the break. this is al jazeera america.

>> welcome back, every, to al jazeera america. just another reminder, we're standing by, the president of the united states has been meeting with the iraqi prime minister nourial maliki. they've been meeting at the white house. we're expecting a taping of that meetingings and conversation. that should be coming down any minute now. as soon as we get that tape we'll roll it for you. let's go on to our news now. people who have signed up for healthcare via the troubled website has been minusculed according to house committee numbers. it has been in the low hundreds. but how do the people who signed uup in the first weeks of

obamacare compare to the first weeks of romney care in massachusetts. >> reporter: now we know the federal healthcare website healthcare.gov . is sick, we know that. we've been reporting that for weeks. now let's go back to when it was launched. we're now getting an indication of how sick it actually was when it was first launched. this site is responsible for attracting people from 36 states to buy healthcare under the president's new law. at the end of the first day just six people we are now told had signed up for health air. just six. at the end of the afternoon on the second day which was october 2nd that number had risen to 100, and only 248 people had signed up by the end of the second day. this, according to the house of oversight of government reform committee who just released these figures. this is bad news for the government because they said b

by 2014 they reckon to have 7 million people signed up. clearly there is a long way to go. there is precedence for this. do you remember mitt romney who ran against the president in 2012, well, romney cares will had a weak start. only 123 people had signed up for romney care by the end of the first month. by the end of the first year the total number who had medical care under romney care was 36,000. but 0% of those enrolled did so in the final months. they waited until the last possible second before those penalties for not having healthcare kicked in. tony, healthcare.gov may be in intensive care right now. intensive care, you like the pun? tto keep it all going will

continue. >> so the end of november and you still have a few months until march to get in, register and enroll. >> reporter: it's worth bearing in mind if you compare the federal site to the romney site in massachusetts, the massachusetts site was much smaller, much less problems and much less complicated. but as we saw in massachusetts it could become a great success. >> john terrett for us. let's go to mike viqueira at the white house. we're standing by to see the tape of the meeting between the president and iraq's prime minister neur naturey al maliki. the they'll take questions for reporters, and the tape is rolling now. let's hear the president of the

united states. >> thank you, thank you. >> either that means we need to recue it or we missed it. i'm sure we didn't miss it. let's go back to you. we're expecting to hear comments from the president on the meeting of prime minister nouri al maliki, through a translator, of course, and we are expect to hear comments from the president about the shooting at l.a.x. >> reporter: right, he said we have full reports coming from inside the oval office. he's very concerned, and he has been getting updates. i don't think there is any more meat to it than that. the president has been kept

abreast of anything, chiefly is the threat or potential threat to homeland security and connections in that regard. but back to this meeting with nouri al maliki. it has been a long time coming. it has been contentious issues between these two countries, of course, it could be the conflict neighboring syria they have allowed overflights from iran into syria to pollster and put there's the assad regime there. what we heard yesterday here in washington in the institute of peace, do let me know if that tape starts rolling. maliki time and time again against allowing al-qaeda to have a foothold, to have territory-- >> mike, i think it's in. let's take a look at this tape.

the president and his meeting with the iraqi prime minister, nourial maliki. >> issues with the audio? clearly issues with the audio. are we working on it? so mike, we're going to work on the audio issues. you were talking about some of the issues for these--and they're serious issues for these two men to talk about. >> reporter: quite so. we're talking about al-qaeda controlling a certain amount of territory there that has been nearly shattered by the war there. with the help of many inside

iraq who have gone over across the board into syria to attack back into iraq to wreak this havoc that has resulted in so many deaths spike at the beginning of this year. 7,000 iraqis have died as a result of this violence. and again there is some space, some distance between the interpretation about who is responsible for this violence among the iraqi government, among the maliki government, but there are others who say this is the sort of sectarian violence, the shiite on sunni violence and other violence in iraq that is in part responsible for this. not so said the administration. i squad jay carney about this today. nouri al maliki is here asking for arm maments, advanced weapons systems like the apache helicopter from the united states to help combat some of

the violence and some of the insurgency, the terrorism that they see inside iraq. again, the administration seems pre-disposed to give the military assistance that they seek. there are others who say no, they shouldn't be getting it. ththey say that they should make that transfer, the arms sale. congress has to act proactively to block it, where they could block the money to send it to iraq. these are contentious issues. and obviously the violence that is now plaguing the country is doing nothing to help in that regard. so it is a volatile mix in iraq. remains so and increasingly so. that is the context under which these two men have met today in

the oval office. >> mike, i think we're getting close to having the tape ready to go properly this time. we do have the tape? it's ready to go. mike, let's play it again. fingers crossed, and we'll chat after. >> obama: i want to welcome back prime minister maliki to the white house. you know, it's been two years since the last u.s. troops left from iraq. >> but the strategic partnership between our two countries remain very strong. we honor the lives that were lost both american and iraqi to

bring about a functioning democracy in a country that previously had been ruled by an vicious dictator. >> and we appreciate prime minister's commitment to honoring that sacrifice by ensuring a strong prosperous, inclusive and democratic iraq. >> we have had wide-ranging discussions about economic issues, regional issues and

security issues. and much of our discussions centered on the fact that although iraq has made significant progress in areas like oil production, a range of other reforms that have taken place, unfortunately, al-qaeda has still been active and has grown more active recently, so we have had a lot of discussion of how we can work together to push back against that terrorist organization that operates not only in iraq but pose as threat to the entire region and to the united states.

i emphasize in addition to continuing counterterrorism support and partnership, that they were encouraged by the work that prime minister maliki has done in the past to insure all people inside iraq, sunni, shiite and kurd feel that they have a voice in their

government. i encourage iraq pass an election law, and that moves forward so that people understand that when they have differences they can express them politically as opposed through violence.

>> i also appreciated the efforts that prime minister maliki has made recently to restore stronger relationships with its neighbors, including kuwait and turkey and some of the other gulf states, and expressed my interest in providing whatever support necessary to make sure that iraq is working cooperatively and effectively with its neighbors.

we spent circle amount of time talking about syria where the spill-over affect it's os of ths and assad's treatment of its own people has had spill-over effects in iraq as well.

and we agree it's in the interest of both countries to try to bring about a political settlement, a political transition inside of syria that allows syrian people to make decision abouts their own lives while at the same time isolated extremist factions that could end up not only threatening people inside of syria, but throughout the region as well.

and i shared the prime minister and emphasized with him that iran seize this opportunity to take the right path in according dance with previous international norms and resolutions. my hope is that we can arrive at a resolution, but i emphasized to the prime minister preventing a nuclear arms race to add that to a region with the dangers that so many people already face.

throat this discussion the main theme was that the united states wanting to a strong and effective partner with iraq, and we're deeply invested in seeing iraq that is inclusive, democratic, and that is prosperous. and i communicated to the prime minister anything that we could do to help bring about that more hopeful future for iraq is something that we want to work

on. welcome, mr. prime minister. >> thank you very much, mr. president, in the name of god the merciful, mr. president you went into details of all the issues that we discussed, and the dialogue was very good, so we mentioned many, many issues

that are in common for us, and we agreed on them. it was very positive, very deep and very strategic conversation. >> we had an agreement that was signed between iraq and the united states as you know, and we have a friendship agreement, and we have a strategic framework agreement, and we need to activate them. this was one of the main purpose of our visit. we need to continue our agreements.

>> we've been listening to the press briefing between the president of the united states and the prime minister of iraq, prime minister nourial maliki. we heard the president going on about the relationships is strong and they'll continue to work together. >> reporter: right. >> part of the irony of this mete something that the prime minister has come to the white house asking for assistance to help him put down what he is calling an al-qaeda insurgency in his country. you made the point correctly that there was a time when there were active negotiations to come to a force of agreement with the united states to keep american forces on the ground and

activity on the ground. for many in the region the prime minister has been a polarizing figure, and he is seen as being very sectarian in the way he has begunked, and many regions see him as having been a part of marginalizing the sunniy minority at this time. there are a lot of storylines going on here. >> reporter: yes, the last criticism we hear from capitol hill. accusing maliki of fostering sectarian division. in case it wasn't clear in anybody's mind. i can't imagine whose mind it wouldn't be clear in, but today the white house made it clear there were no boots on the ground, no american troops on the ground in iraq. that's fairly evident given everything that has happened before, many americans have lost

their lives there since 2003. it has cost 7,000 iraqi lives since the beginning of the year, and it remains very much an open question. >> mike viqueira at the white house. mike, thank you very much through the start and stop and start and stop. let's go back to our top story now. it was reported that tsa agent was killed at the l.a.x. international airport. several other agents were shot. they were able to take a gunman in custody. the condition of the wounded not known at this time. let's get more now from brian rooney. brian rooney is in los angeles at l.a.x. for us. brian, what more are you learning? >> reporter: well, tony, it's my understanding that within the last hour they have still been performing a security clearance of the terminal, terminal number three. heavily armed los angeles

officers were there looking in the bathrooms, nooks and crannies, and making sure there is nobody else there, and there might not be any devices left. presumably they would have to find the shooter's car, and make sure there is nothing dangerous about the car itself. >> brian, i don't know if you can see this as well. it's important to notice the planes that have been flying, the international flights that have needed to land. we're seeing planes on a tarmac, runway, do we know whether operations there at the airport have resumed? >> no, they have not. a handful of plains have landed in the last hour. there are at least 20 airlines that are not operating right now at los angeles international. it is entirely in a stall.

the passengers are coming and going, w bewildered where to go. >> i'm thinking san francisco airport is nearby. a lot of those flights can be rerouted there. let's take another quick break and come back for more. this is al jazeera america. on august 20th, al jazeera america i

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>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. this is tony harris with your top stories. the transportation security agency said that a tsa agent was killed in a shooting at l.a.x. airport. the gunman was shot when he open fired with a rifle. officers were involved in a shooting. he wrote a rant about killing tsa officers, the conditions of the wounded not known at this thyme. iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki met with presidentma